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As far as Savage goes, I think that he is on the mark most of the time. One of the things I enjoy about him is that he does not sugar coat his comments. He tells it like it is. As far as the Autism thing goes it was taken out of context and misrepresented by the liberal media. When I use the term "liberal media" I don't use it like most conservatives out there. My husband spent 9 years working for a newspaper and one of the reasons he left was due to the insane bias that the media pretends not to hold. Savage was not speaking badly about Autistic children he was speaking about the money hungry, drug pushing so called doctors out there who use Autism as a way to push pharmaceuticals. As a matter of fact he specifically stated how bad he felt for truly Autistic children and their parents. Now don't get me wrong, I don't agree with him 100%, and I cannot deny that he can be rude, arrogant, self-centered and sometimes offensive. I often pray for him, IYKWIM. All that said and oddly enough, these are some of the reasons I like him. Besides, I know I'm not perfect either. I do believe he is a breath of fresh air... tells things how they are whether you like it or not... no sugar coating. I like his philosophy on borders, language, culture and politics. I guess I may be the only one! That's ok, I don't mind. :001_smile:
God Bless,
Melissa
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I honestly don't believe that the one quotation I chose to highlight is misquoting Scripture. I just believe that the editors are being transparent about their strong "Church" emphasis in God's Sovereign plan and used John 3:16 to illustrate how they believe God feels about the Church, I guess?!
I'm going to have to bow out of this conversation because I simply don't have my Omnibus anymore (I sold it two weeks ago). But I would definitely comb through the essays (and specifically teacher's notes). I sure wish I had it, because I put post-it notes on probably 50 pages where I highlighted "red flags." That would have been so much more helpful to you.
Also, as I tried to say, I really loved VP. It just got increasingly heavy-handed, in my opinion, the longer we stuck with it.
And honestly, that makes sense . . . the deeper you go, the more some of the differences become highlighted. I also realize that my tolerance for the "Limited Atonement" piece, and their attitude and treatment of Israel is probably a little lower than others'--and that's okay, too (We work with Messianic Jews).
And after 8 years of homeschooling, I'm just plain 'ol tired of the tweaking and decided to go with teachers' notes and approaches that I can relax with; that are written from a more Evangelical viewpoint.
Jennifer, I am truly grateful that you shared your experience.
BTW, an anonymous person recently left a message for me... basically thankful for this thread as they were wondering the same thing, but feel too shy to say anything about anything remotely religious on the boards. I believe that it takes courage at times when posting on this board because of that issue. So I want to reiterate that I am truly thankful to you for not holding reserve and attempting to answer my question to the best of your ability by sharing your experience. I hope that you will continue to post on this thread and on this board with the same confidence as I can already see that your opinion is one I will value.
For the record... when I started this thread I never intended it to become a debate between reformists vs. non-reformists, just as those who post seeking secular curriculum most likely do not intent for their threads to become debates between secular vs. religious based curriculums. It is unfortunate when someone cannot share their honest experience without someone else thinking they have to be defensive because they are in disagreement or offended that others do not share their views/beliefs. I will say I agree with Jennifer that "For God so loved the Church" would definitely be a spin on John 3:16 at the least and am resolved to agree that this would be crossing the Rubicon for us as well. I type this with no intention of offending anyone... just firm in what I believe. In the end everyone has to use what will work best for them. I do not condemn those who are or will use Omnibus, but I can see that it most likely will not be the right fit for us.
Many thanks and God Bless,
Melissa
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Mine was taken by my dh from his iPhone while dining out at one of our favorite mexican restaurants. I have one that is very similar on my blog profile, but I'm actually smiling in that one. I chose this one because I like seeing my ds smiling in it and he's not in the other one. LOL!
BTW, my dh is a freelance photographer and I feel bad for him because these are about as good as my pics get. I always have either my eyes closed, goofy face, etc. He uses my ds as a model when trying new things instead. :lol:
Melissa
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We love Vos!
Vos doesn't really have great illustrations for that age--however, I used to run off the free colouring sheets from Calvary chapel for the kids to do while I read. They loved it. We'd also do the worksheets. (Using NKJV to help fill in the blanks.)
This is great... thank you for sharing this! We fellowship at a Calvary chapel in our area.
Melissa
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I definitely believe that using most of VP's curriculum selections is the right fit for me and my ds (with the exceptions of Bible, using SWR, and correlating VP history w/SOTW), however, I called VP yesterday and went over a few things with them. Here were some of my dilemmas... I was considering either starting SOTW in first and OTAE in 2nd... or starting SOTW in 2nd and combining OTAE/NTGR for 3rd... but I like the suggestions by someone from the VP Yahoo Group of only do the sections of SOTW that line up with a VP card and so I am resolved in following VP's suggestions of doing OTAE in 2nd correlated w/SOTW and NTGR in 3rd. I believe that I will start using the Scholars program in 2nd and take a look at the file on VP Yahoo Group about VP correlated w/SOTW.
However, I have a few more questions. I'm still undecided on my K/1 plans for geography/history. I think that we will use Galloping the Globe for K and VP's geography selections for 1st, however, I also want to include some State/American history in 1st as the VP rep suggested on the phone yesterday. So, I am now considering either Cantering the Country (focusing more on our state when we get there-Idaho), MFW Adventures, or WP The American Story 1. Has anyone here used GtG or CtC? What do you use for world exploration/geography in K? What do you use for State/American history in 1st? Any comments or suggestions?
That said... I was feeling more confident in my choice of VP selections until a new kink gummed up the works when Conai-Scoil responded with an eye opener for me. Here is a portion of the above comments posted today that has me rethinking my plans again...
When I read in the teacher's notes, "For God so loved the Church" (John 3:16), I knew that my days with Veritas and specifically, Omnibus were over.Now, how can I ignore that? I had heard of others looking past this sort of stuff and just teaching your dc why you do or don't agree with it... using it as an opportunity to reinforce why you believe what you believe and I thought that I would do the same - knowing that not any one particular curriculum is perfect, but changing scripture... I just have huge doubts now. I know I still have plenty of time before I even come to the Omnibus, but I would like to have a well thought out plan ahead of time with room for tweaking when we actually get to each stage/grade, KWIM. That said, I think I am still going to use most of VP selections until we hit Omnibus, as I do believe there is wisdom in their curriculum selections (as someone once stated :001_smile:) then maybe switching to TOG or ?
Can anyone help me with this? Do you really use Omnibus and look past this sort of thing? Do you switch and start TOG's history for the 2nd rotation? Should I consider using TOG from the very beginning although I like most of the other curriculum selections VP offers? Would using SOTW as my spine and VP history cards as a supplement resolve my problem?
I truly look forward to further comments and feedback on this issue.
Sincerely,
Melissa
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My one and only ds is 4. Here is our blog with links to all the things that we are going to be using for K4 starting September 1. I hope it will help you.
Melissa
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Here are some first grade geography selections from Veritas Press:
Legends and Leagues and Jo Ellen Moore's Beginning Geography Vol. 1&2, Geography/States & Capitals Songs CDs
Other possibilities... Galloping the Globe or Cantering the Country.
These ones were recommended to me just recently as I was roughly planning ahead for geography/history for our first grade year...
Adventures in My Father's World and The American Story 1 by Winter Promise.
Melissa
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Diversity Training is a great episode. :lol: The OFfice is the only show dh and I watch on a regular basis. I keep waiting for the writers to lose their touch...but every single season has been great so far. I can't wait until September.
Enjoy watching them all for the first time!!!
:iagree: Us too!
That's what she said.Just for you Karenciavo... The Office - That's What She Said on YouTube.
and yet another... The Office Best Moments on YouTube.
:D Melissa
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I had posted a previous thread a few weeks ago and didn't really find what I was looking for. Then I posted this thread and when I got this response...
Math-U -See does, here is the counting chart for MUSI decided to look into MUS and realized that Steve Demme is the mathematician I was looking for all along. It didn't click until I saw his picture here. I believe MUS is what I was looking for all along and didn't even know it! Thanks Pongo!
I just had to share this. :lol:
Now, how to figure out using Saxon and MUS together... I like them both and believe my ds will benefit from both. I think I'll take this to the Yahoo Groups.
Melissa
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Hi Melissa, I saw your post at the vp_elementary group, but I've been sewing a lot and didn't head over to answer it. I also figured we were talking here, didn't want you to get tired of me. :)
First of all, I don't think that I could ever get tired of you. In fact, I wish you had a blog so that I could visit it and glean from you more often, that way you don't get tired of me! LOL! :lol:
I'm not sure you're really asking the right questions yet, because you're concerned so far with what is being taught but not WHEN. VP suggests starting their history sequence in 2nd, meaning you have a long ways to go until then. I know you haven't cited them, but MP suggests waiting until 3rd for ancients, and when I start with my new Little One, that is my plan. If you do it with VP, you can start in 3rd, combining OTAE and NTGR in one year (the schedule is in the group files). In this way you can still hit Omnibus in 7th, if you wish. You can't know if you're going to use Omnibus or not, so I wouldn't sweat that.I can't say I really understood the comments of the other poster on the MARR cards either. I don't know much about history, so it's entirely possible I miss the significance of some things. In any case, when I started MARR (which I'm not claiming I did a good job on, let's blame it on pregnancy, hehe) I went through the cards and tallied them by what portion of the MARR time period they corresponded to. Someone around here had told me there were divisions (early middle ages, middle ages, ren/ref??), and as I tallied them, I found the cards were evenly divided between the 3, which seemed quite balanced to me. The cards do cover some church history stuff that, if you cover it with a very young dc, you're kind of left scratching your head on the why. But you know, that's why they meant it for 4th graders. Younger dc doing it are tag alongs, and if I were doing it with only say 2nd graders, I wouldn't do it that way. There was a recent post on the VP list about these very thing, about how to teach exclusively littles vs. more the target age with MARR.
I agree with everything you stated above. I plan on doing GtG in K, VP's geography selections in 1st possibly along w/Child's Story of America and/or CTC - but possibly waiting until 2nd to CtC. Then doing as you say, starting OTAE and combining it w/NTGR in 3rd. (Any thoughts on this plan?)
You also have to remember that with VP history there's the base topic and a whole bunch of rabbit trails. Those rabbit trails are in the tm through various activities and are found in the book selections in the catalog. So I doubt that anything exceptionally interesting about the Middle Ages was skipped per se in MARR, but rather it was covered a different way, as a rabbit trail, rather than the main memory work for the week. There's only so much you can cover or focus on, and VP picked what they thought was important.This is what I like!
The Scholars lessons have consistently good feedback. Again, if you do scholars now, you're not talking history anyway (K5 and 1st). Are you sure you really need scholars right now, with just one dc? Do what makes you feel comfortable. I'm just saying K5 is awfully easy: just teach them to read, do some basic math, and read aloud a lot together. I don't think the Scholars lessons schedule the extras (art, etc.), so you'd still be doing stuff. I would think they'd be a bit more helpful later, but that's just me. They seem to be very good at boosting people's confidence, so if that's what you need, go for it! :)I don't think that I'll do Scholars for K or possibly even 1st, but will most likely spring for them in 2nd and on (until I get comfortable).
If I were doing it over, I'd play more and worry less. And no, I wouldn't suggest you buy TOG now (with a 4 yo). I have a rising 4th grader who is a prolific reader, huge history buff. That's totally different from having a 4 or 5 yo. VP, to me, is like TOG streamlined down to just the elementary. It's not for the faint of heart, as you really do have to pull together your own stuff. TOG would have given me some extra tools that would have been nice with this increasing age, but we're fine right now. And like I said, for K-2nd, I wish I had played more and worried less. With this new Little One, I'd probably read CHOW in K5 and then do american for a couple years using good spines and lots of activities. Then in 3rd start into VP, doing OTAE and NTGR. That puts us at MARR in 4th, which I think will be a better age than the young 3rd my dd was. You also have to remember that my dh has read my dd story bibles and whatnot over and over and over and over... So you're talking about worldview and biblical integration. Well these littles don't care about that, don't need that. You just want to fill their banks with lots of good stories. Then about 4th or 5th you start to pull together the dots. Do you remember what history you were taught in K5 and 1st? Didn't think so, lol. But you remember the stories you were told. They have no sense of time, so it really doesn't matter if you jumble them up and cover all kinds of stuff concurrently. My big thing is that truth always gets told as truth, that's all.I think I saw CHOW in VP's selections, but I'm not familiar with it. Maybe I should consider using this instead of Child's Story of America in 1st or possibly instead of CtC in 2nd? (Any suggestions there?)
If you like SOTW, you either let it drive or VP. If you want VP to drive, I wouldn't bother starting in 1st like I did, honest. I'd save VP until 2nd, or 3rd if you want to do the combined OTAE and NTGR in one year. You can start SOTW in 1st if you want. But like I said, the issue is what is driving. SOTW can become a resource to correlate to the VP cards, if you want to let them drive. My dd didn't really adore SOTW, so I let her just read it herself and we moved on. BTW, that's part of why you wait on the VP history, so they'll be able to read the books for themselves. ;)Ok, now I'm not sure what to do... so much to choose from and I can't have my ds doing everything all at once. Maybe I should start SOTW in 1st instead of CtC. I saw a file on the VP elementary Yahoo group that I should I realize I still have time, but there is so much to consider and I want to have a well thought out plan while using the best materials to accomplish our goal. I know that different materials fit everyone's situation differently... so uh, do you have any thoughts on this? :bigear:
I'm having a heard time thinking straight because my ds is sitting on my lap and playing Veggie Island on the PC while I'm on the PowerBook next to him... so I hope this reply is making sense as it is taking quite a long time to construct. LOL!
Actually, it was attending Marcia Somerville's talks on TOG at the convention that helped me decide not to buy it. Not that I didn't like it, as I did seriously consider it again this year. But Marcia's talk really hit home to me when she said, "Trust much to the reading of good books." So to Marcia, the lower grammar years, say K-3rd-ish, should be reading a lot of good history. Well I was doing just fine with that with VP! That's when I realized that I could knock myself out a lot harder, but someone who knows history was just saying to give them the books and let them enjoy it. You go for the connections and fancy stuff, what I think of as teaching, later. And as I realized I was doing just fine making that happen with VP, I no longer needed all the extras of TOG.That makes complete sense to me and makes me feel even better about my choice to go with VP. Thanks for all your feedback, Elizabeth. I hope you'll indulge me a little more and respond to my comments/questions above as well.
BTW, Here is a response from someone on the Yahoo Group that was helpful as well.
Hey Melissa,I just saw your post on VP. I will try to answer your question. I was raised in an Assembly of God church. Today, we do not go to a "Presbyterian" church but I do love VP. I have looked over TOG and it looks very good. I like the TOG "Teacher's notes" and Bible verses. But for me the choice came down to this ~
I like the short and to the point cards
They are jump off for us to be able to read more real books with my kids
I have never really seen "doctrine" in VP's history it is pretty much facts
I have figured out a way of doing history that I like and VP gives me the structure that I need but also gives me lots of room to "flesh" out the card the way I see fit with 2 boys.
I am totally opposed to only textbook learning for history. I think me and my kids would both GAG!
I like that VP only covers 32 events and for me I am okay with this. I like doing an indepth study of a few events rather than cover a "ton" of events.
I feel like with 32 events I am able to keep it together and be organized.
I guess for me it is the "less is more" (We used SOTW for 1st grade but I switched in the middle of 2nd b/c I did not like covering 3 events a week ~ I do however love the method that SOTW uses: Narrated Story, Map Work, Timeline Entry, including real books) I would still recommend SOTW but I would only do the sections that line up with a VP card.
For the grammar stage I don't per se feel like I have to give them a ton of info right now. I just want to create pegs for round 2.
I would consider TOG for round 2 in the logic stage but that is just a thought floating in the back of my mind right now. LOL
Any additional comments here? :bigear:
Many Many Thanks!
Melissa
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Math-U -See does, here is the counting chart for MUS
Thank you! Ok, now I'm looking into MUS and considering using it as a supplement to Saxon Math. Here's the thread I just started... Saxon Math supplemented w/MUS?
Melissa
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I posted a thread a while ago about a math genius who was teaching dc how to count and calculate mathematic problems faster. Forgive me as I don't recall his name or anything, but I liked the concept he presented back when I saw him on TV. I'm hoping to find someone who knows what I talking about.
I'll explain further with an example... Here is a 0-100 Counting Board. You'll notice that the first row of counting starts with 1-10. However, based on the concept of the brainy mathematician that I once saw, I am wondering if I should be teaching my ds how to count with say a 0-129 chart and the first row of counting starts with 0-9... since these are the primary numbers and every number thereafter is built from these).
Brief example below (Please excuse the lines in the top row. I had to tweak the text so it looks like a chart in this post):
_0_1__2__3__4_5__6_7__8__9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
Does this make any sense? Does anyone else do this or understand what I mean?
Melissa
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We've moved VP's history program to the additional resource catagory. I found that as we progressed their focus stays more with church history and misses or minimizes other historical events. We use their items as additional work and I like many of their book selections but I have varied between Biblioplan/SOTW and TOG to try to find a balance of history.In my experience the difference is that TOG focuses more on history with the religious bent allowing for greater flexibility while, as I mention above, VP drops historical events in favor of including more church history. It is not so much the POV as the choice between topics of secular/political/cultural history and church history.Melissa - this is what I was trying to say the other day when I told you I saw their materials...said much more clearly. :)
As for TOG - I just saw the Somerville's in person and they made a few points re: their philosophy. First, they attend a church called Sovereign Grace Ministries and they hold to their statement of faith. If I understood them correctly, they were saying that this is the philosophy they hold to, but they do not want that to be the focus of their curriculum. They want to present everything in a very open manner, allowing the users to interpret and tailor to what their family believes.
Thank you for these comments. I believe I am understanding more of what you were trying to tell me Monica.
I wouldn't say we are "following" VP for history, but we're using some VP resources. SOTW 1 will be our history spine this year, and I got the VP cards and activity books (OTAE and NTGR) to introduce more Bible history into our history curriculum. I'm using VP as a tool to "tweak" SOTW 1, if that makes sense.I'm not sure yet whether we'll use VP materials into the Middle Ages and beyond or not, since the materials will depart from an emphasis on Bible history and go on to an emphasis on church history. Since we are not Reformed, I will have to hunt down broader resources than VP offers, and I'm not sure whether I'll end up using VP plus other stuff, or not at all.
This is what I am thinking of doing for History too... correlating VP history w/SOTW.
Not reformed. I'm trying to think, and I think many of the people on the yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vp_elementary'>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vp_elementary are not reformed either. Maybe half are? I don't know that we've done a survey. In any case, it's not an issue with the elementary curriculum, imho. And people have said for Omnibus you just present your side/spin to it as well. Where it would be most likely to show up in the elementary curriculum would be the MARR choices, and they're pretty balanced across the time.Why not TOG? Well, because I started the VP history 2nd semester of 1st grade, when TOG would have been overkill. I haven't changed now, going into 4th, because I haven't felt the need. Actually I thought about it going into this year, because the VP tm's for history are pretty trim (compared to the Vegas buffet of TOG), but I didn't feel I'd have time to deal with that with the new baby coming. And really, after you've done this a while, you find your own groove, the balance of what you need to make it practical for you and enough for your dc.
There's really a lot of wisdom to the VP curriculum selections. I think actually where people part waters or adapt to make it work for them is not so much what is used but how. For instance, with the history it's not at all uncommon for people to totally drop the worksheets. Are they worthwhile? Yes. But do you *have* to and are some people happier without them? Like you, for the spelling I've used SWR. This year we're diverging, with the baby coming. I don't use their math. If you like most of what they suggest, you might spring for the Scholars lessons, say when you hit 2nd grade, which might make life easy.
Definitely check out the yahoo group and get feedback from others. We've uploaded schedules and all sorts of things.
Now I have some comments and questions for OhElizabeth:
I am considering going with the Scholars lessons as you stated above, however, I am curious... since you were considering switching to TOG this year... if you had to do it all over again (although I guess you eventually will with the new addition to your family arriving soon ;)) would you still use VP history selections like the cards and such, or would you have started with TOG instead and maybe use VP or SOTW as extra resources?
Although I know it may be an good opportunity to teach my ds why we believe what we believe and why we do/don't agree with some of the material presented in the Omnibus, I cannot deny that I am a bit leery of using the it when the time comes. Another concern being exactly what JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst stated above about VP dropping historical events in favor of including more church history. I don't mind and am not against that it covers church history, unless it is completely based on reformation and nothing else.
I realize that there may be no one perfect curriculum for us and that I may need to tweak some things to get the result I'm wanting... but if it is not so much the POV as the choice between topics of secular/political/cultural history and church history concerning TOG and VP... then, from your experience and IYHO, is correlating VP w/SOTW going to cover all the bases or should I lean towards TOG from the beginning or combine VP w/TOG, etc.?
Is this making any sense to anyone? I hope I'm not confusing the issue but I could sure use some sound advice on this and will greatly appreciate any additional feedback on this issue.
BTW, I posted the initial question on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vp_elementary just today and hope to get more information from there as well.
Sincerely,
Melissa
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More than one would be fine too... just looking for an accurate/reliable online resource(s) to explain the different methods of homeschooling in detail. I am asking this for a friend, but may add a link(s) to my blog as well.
Thank you,
Melissa
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I think that your dd is at the perfect age for phonics and I here that ABeka has a good phonics program. However, I suggest looking into Spell to Write and Read. I know there is someone here on the forum who uses Phonics Pathways w/SWR. You can find links to SWR from my blog (signature line below).
We're starting PreK/K4 in September w/SWR. My ds(4) knows letter recognition (upper and lowercase) as well as the 26 phonograms (letter sounds) of the alphabet. We'll be working on multi-letter phonograms and cursive w/large motor skills. You can find some good first readers from A Beka or BJUP (links to them on my blog as well, under Read Alouds).
Melissa
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your spouse's work schedule or do you just create one and stick to it regardless?
My dh will rotate shifts every couple of months and I haven't decided whether or not I will stick to a set morning schedule... or just change our schedule accordingly when dh's shift changes. I know that being flexible is yet another advantage to HSing, but in your experience... what has worked best for you and your family?
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Melissa
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My ds(4) loved doing the Homework Helpers series for PreK-1 and some Kumon workbooks. There is A Beka's or Rod & Staff's nursery/preK curriculum... you can also find other workbooks at a local school supply or book store and WalMart.
As far as age/grade appropriate curriculum standards are concerned, here are a few resources I know of that you may want to review.
World Book Typical Course of Study
Veritas Press Curriculum Guide
I realize your dd is only going to be 3, however, in the future you may also want to check annually with your state's department of education for content standards (online). For example, although my state does not regulate or monitor home school education and I am not required to formally school my dc before the age of 7... new this year in my state is a list of content standards starting with Kindergarten. example from my state, Idaho
I hope this information helps you. :001_smile:
Melissa
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I am not reformed, but I plan on following VP curriculum suggestions closely in the future (w/the exception of SWR and possibly correlating VP history w/SOTW).
I'm just curious... for those of you who are also not reformed, but follow VP or plan on following VP... what made you decide to use VP instead of say TOG or something else? What are your likes and/or dislikes with their curriculum choices? What variations have you made that work better for your dc?
I hope someone will reply to this thread as I am very interest in getting feedback.
Many thanks,
Melissa
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I thought I would never be the type of person that blogs but looking at some of them ... krazzymomma ... have been really inspiring.
:lol: How funny... I never thought I would one to blog either, but krazzymomma is the one who inspired me to do it too!
After getting passed the security/privacy issues... I decided to start a blog to keep family and friends updated/informed on what we're going to be doing w/HS... and I like to be able to see what/how other HSers are doing as well. So, I'd like to think that maybe mine can be helpful to other HSers some day too.
BTW, I don't think I ever said... thanks Monica! ;)
Melissa
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I had a natural, unmedicated birth and although I didn't think that I was vocal - just really focused on breathing, I just asked my dh and he said differently - really vocal. LOL!
OK, well I tried not to be vocal because as I recall you don't want to push until you're fully dilated and when you're vocal it puts pressure where you don't want it just yet, KWIM. Then when it's time to push you need to focus on breathing and pushing... keeping your face relaxed as possible... the more vocal you are the less effective your pushing is. Anyways, that is what I recall in a nutshell.
I would have loved to have a home birth with a midwife, but we were renting at the time (not a place I'd want to have those special memories) and I'm a redhead who tends to bleed alot, therefore, thought it safer to be in the hospital. Turned out I was right... I had to spend two extra days in the hospital and was ever so close to having a blood transfusion. However, there were no other major complications and my blessed ds was born a happy and healthy baby. Oh... BTW, he came out pretty vocal too! LOL!
Well, it is four years later and I'm so glad I refused the transfusion, but it was tough for awhile... especially when you're nursing (for 18 months)!
My favorite scripture that I clung to when preparing for birthing my one and only ds... and tried to remember while in labor was...
A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come, but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ~ John 16:21 ~
Elizabeth, Jesus loves you and your baby too! Congratulations and I hope all goes well for you and your family.
God Bless,
Melissa
Anyone who is not reformed using VP?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Jami, I appreciate your last comment as well as your and Angelina's clarification on the matter. :001_smile:
Although some of my other questions still remain unanswered, I have gained a better understanding of VP and reformed theology. I will continue to plan our homeschooling journey and ask the Hive many more questions in the future in hopes to glean further knowledge and wisdom.
Good night for now and God Bless,
Melissa